This can make your wifi feel faster, if you're not downloading big files

[kasdashd]

If you're not downloading big files, or don't mind waiting longer for downloads, you can change your Wifi channel width from like 80mhz to 20mhz. This will reduce your download and upload speed by 75%, but will make loading websites, games, and videos faster, csuse the latency is lower, and the connection more stable, since your connection has many more channels to choose from, indstead of competing with your neightbours about only a few channels. This works best the 5ghz band, and of course 6ghz, if you have that new standard already, because 2.4Ghz often uses 20mhz anyway, but lacks the low latency of 5Ghz.

[Blazepoint5]

8 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

If you're not downloading big files, or don't mind waiting longer for downloads, you can change your Wifi channel width from like 80mhz to 20mhz. This will reduce your download and upload speed by 75%, but will make loading websites, games, and videos faster, csuse the latency is lower, and the connection more stable, since your connection has many more channels to choose from, indstead of competing with your neightbours about only a few channels. This works best the 5ghz band, and of course 6ghz, if you have that new standard already, because 2.4Ghz often uses 20mhz anyway, but lacks the low latency of 5Ghz.

How

[kasdashd]

34 minutes ago, Blazepoint5 said:

How

As I said, it "feels" faster, you can't benchmark or measure, it's something you have to try. It's like disabling virtual memory on your PC or Android phone, if you have a powerful enough device, then you'll notice it.

[Lurick]

Changing the width of a highway doesn't magically make it feel faster or reduce latency, what you said has no basis in reality.

[Blazepoint5]

34 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

As I said, it "feels" faster, you can't benchmark or measure, it's something you have to try. It's like disabling virtual memory on your PC or Android phone, if you have a powerful enough device, then you'll notice it.

How can i enable it on my phone and pc.

[DoctorNick]

6 minutes ago, Blazepoint5 said:

How can i enable it on my phone and pc.

You can change it on your wifi router or access point

[Kilrah]

Once again a useless recommendation without mentioning the reasons and caveats/drawbacks.

 

1) it's highly dependent on equipment and environment so that's not universally true, wider channels only get poorer latency if there is interference.

2) It seems 20MHz on 5GHz is too limiting, and if a general recommendation had to be made 40MHz seems to be the sweet spot with lower latency than 20 unless there's unusually high interference.

 

55 minutes ago, kasdashd said:

As I said, it "feels" faster, you can't benchmark or measure

For network latency if it feels faster then you can measure it.

[Blazepoint5]

41 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

You can change it on your wifi router or access point

Ohh.

 

Lmao i literally see you on almost every thread i enter.

[DoctorNick]

20 minutes ago, Blazepoint5 said:

Ohh.

 

Lmao i literally see you on almost every thread i enter.

I'm bored out of my mind at work atm. Just chillin. Also. You can run but you can hide!

[Blazepoint5]

1 hour ago, DoctorNick said:

I'm bored out of my mind at work atm. Just chillin. Also. You can run but you can hide!

Ahh! Agreed, Alright random citizen we shall meet again.

[Alex Atkin UK]

15 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Once again a useless recommendation without mentioning the reasons and caveats/drawbacks.

 

1) it's highly dependent on equipment and environment so that's not universally true, wider channels only get poorer latency if there is interference.

2) It seems 20MHz on 5GHz is too limiting, and if a general recommendation had to be made 40MHz seems to be the sweet spot with lower latency than 20 unless there's unusually high interference.

 

For network latency if it feels faster then you can measure it.

Worth noting that a weak 20Mhz signal will generally work better than 40Mhz which works better than 80Mhz, because the ability to work at range reduces as you increase the channel width.

 

Of course this is at a huge cost of reducing performance of things with a good signal to try to force something with a weak signal to work better, which will cause everything to work even slower as the WiFi will constantly be dropping to slower speeds.

 

The real solution in that situation is to get a mesh system or even just a plain Access Point wired back to the main router, that you can place closer to the weak clients.  The solution to bad WiFi is almost always put more WiFi closer to your clients or use a cable on those clients when possible.

 

Hopefully WiFi 7 is partly a solution to this, as it can split channels into smaller segments, though I'm not sure if that means it can use some RUs at high speeds and some at low, at the same time.  It would be much more efficient use of spectrum if it can.

[LogicalDrm]

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As there's no evidence of claimed benefits and there's multiple counter arguments, this claim should be taken as very high suspicion on claimed benefits. Placebo is poor excuse to do potentially harmful or damaging things.